Book ID: CBB392202083

China Bound: John Swire & Sons and Its World, 1816–1980 (2020)

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Bickers, Robert (Author)


Bloomsbury Business


Publication Date: 2020
Physical Details: viii + 534
Language: English

From its origins in Liverpool in 1816, one unusual British firm has threaded a way through two centuries that have seen tumultuous events and epochal transformations in technologies and societies. John Swire & Sons, a small trading company that began by importing dyes, cotton and apples from the Americas, now directs a highly diversified group of interests operating across the globe but with a core focus on Asia. From 1866 its fate was intertwined with developments in China, with the story of steam, and later of flight, and with the movements of people and of goods that made the modern world. China Bound charts the story of the firm, its family owners and staff, its operations, its successes and its disasters, as it endured wars, uprisings and revolutions, the rise and fall of empires - China's, Britain's, Japan's - and the twists and turns of the global economy. This is the story of a business that reshaped Hong Kong, developed Cathay Pacific Airways, dominated China's pre-Second World War shipping industry, and helped pioneer containerization.

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Review Zhaojin Zeng (Spring 2021) Review of "China Bound: John Swire & Sons and Its World, 1816–1980". Business History Review (pp. 184-187). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Harris, Ron
Jones, Geoffrey
Fragner, Bert G.
Kauz, Ralph
Ptak, Roderich
Schottenhammer, Angela
Journals
Business History Review
Book History
International Journal for the History of Engineering and Technology
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Brill
Campus Verlag
Columbia University Press
Harvard University Press
Johns Hopkins University Press
Concepts
Business history
Commerce
Business enterprises
Merchants
Trade
Biographies
People
Wu, Bingjian
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
17th century
Early modern
16th century
Places
Great Britain
United States
Asia
China
India
Europe
Institutions
British East India Company
Dutch East India Company
Royal African Company
Richard Bentley and Son
Chance Brothers and Company
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